Sex, alcohol-related violence draining hospital resources: Doc
MORE cases of sex-related violence and alcohol-related violence are putting a strain on hospital resources, according to Dr Paki Polumi.
The Port Moresby General Hospital chief executive officer said the cost was mounting and affecting resources to sustain other wards and associated professional expenses.
He said the cases increased on Fridays and Saturdays, stressing capacity and putting doctors and staff under pressure.
“When you go to our emergency ward on Fridays and Saturdays, there is blood all over the floor,” he said.
“All our doctors are stressed out. How can they serve all of them?”
Polumi said 90 per cent of the cases were alcohol related.
“So where does that lead us to? The hospital is supposed to be serving patients with malaria or other diseases.
“We waste all our resources. Money is eaten up by patients who are victims of violence,” he said.
He was told by the hospital’s social work unit that the sexual violence cases against children, women and girls were high.
Polumi was speaking at the end of the weekly Walk and Yoga for Life programme at the Paga Hill Ring Road last weekend.
Hundreds of Port Moresby residents took to the streets in red for the walk against violence last weekend.
The walk and yoga for life programme is to increase awareness on violence against women and girls in the city.
NCD Governor Powes Parkop said city hall was committed to making the city safe for women and girls.
“This month, we are focused on violence against women and girls.
“When the city is safer for women and girls, it is safe for everyone else,” he said.
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The only way to diminish alcoholic violence is, the government can impose more tax on beer and restrict to the public to sell beer any way on the street.
Expanding to what mark maina suggests, is for the government to create laws to make the pepertrators pay for their misdeeds and made to pay the costs of victims hospital bills. It is never the choice of victims to be hospitaliised except forced to be there by sex and alchohol abusers
In order to minimise law and order in the country, Government must impose strong laws in cities and towns from selling beer in settlement or in streets.
when i was a small boy, i only saw my grandfather drinking and not my father but today, everybody get drunk at anytime causing problems all over the place. so the government can consider this and impose some laws and ban the street licence holders of the alcohol?
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